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Victor Comras has pursued a public service career in international law and diplomacy, and is an internationally recognized expert and frequent speaker on international sanctions and the global effort to combat terrorism. His articles have appeared in numerous national and international press media, books and professional journals. His latest book: Flawed Diplomacy: The United Nations and the War on Terrorism, published in November by Potomac Books, is now available in major bookstores and on line.
Victor Comras’ diplomatic career extended over three decades. He led the international sanctions program on Serbia which brought down the Slobodan Milosevic regime and ran the US sanctions efforts against the Saddam Hussein regime. He also served Victor Comras has pursued a public service career in international law and diplomacy, and is an internationally recognized expert and frequent speaker on international sanctions and the global effort to combat terrorism. His articles have appeared in numerous national and international press media, books and professional journals. His latest book: Flawed Diplomacy: The United Nations and the War on Terrorism, published in November by Potomac Books, is now available in major bookstores and on line.
Victor Comras’ diplomatic career extended over three decades. He led the international sanctions program on Serbia which brought down the Slobodan Milosevic regime and ran the US sanctions efforts against the Saddam Hussein regime. He also served as the State Department's point-man on sanctions related to Iran, Cuba and North Korea, and other crisis areas. He has also taught graduate courses on sanctions, diplomacy and U.S. foreign policy at the University of Pittsburgh where he served as Diplomat in Residence.

In 1994 Mr. Comras was appointed by President Clinton to serve as the first U.S. envoy to the Republic of Macedonia. His other diplomatic assignments included postings in Africa, Europe and Canada, and at the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the European Union and COCOM. He served as the first State Department Coordinator for the Restitution of World War II (Holocaust) assets.
Victor Comras was appointed in 2002 by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to serve as one of five international monitors charged with overseeing the implementation of Security Council measures against al Qaeda and the Taliban. And, in 2009 he was selected to serve as the US member of the UN Security Council's Panel of Experts on North Korea.

Mr. Comras received his LLM from Harvard University in 1975 and his J.D. (with honors) from the University of Florida Law Center in 1966, where he was on the Law Review. He earned his B.S. from Georgetown University in 1964. He is now a practising attorney admitted to the bar in Florida and before U.S. Federal Courts.

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Explaining the UN’s failure in standing up to terrorism

Explaining the UN’s failure in standing up to terrorism- A review of Flawed Diplomacy: The United Nations & the War on Terrorism, by Victor D. Comras, Potomac Books, Inc., 284 pages,

Review by Luis Fleischman
Special to the New Jersey Jewish News
May 18, 2011

Victor Comras, who led the international sanctions program on Serbia and on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and was the U.S. State Department’s point m Read more of this blog post »

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Published on February 14, 2012 16:48 • Tags: foreign-policy, international-organizations, middle-east, terrorism, united-nations

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“The assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia in March 1881 marked the beginning of an era of political assassinations that included the murders, in quick succession, of President Sadi Carnot of France in 1894; Spanish prime minister Canovas del Castillo in 1897; Empress Elizabeth of Austria and Queen of Hungary in 1898; King Humbert I of Italy in 1900; President William McKinley in 1901; and King Carlos I of Portugal and his heir apparent in 1908. And then, on June 28, 1914, at Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbian nationalists threw a bomb into the carriage of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew and heir of Austria-Hungary’s Emperor Franz Joseph II, killing him and his young wife, Sophia.11 The scene was set for a world war.”
― Victor D. Comras, Flawed Diplomacy: The United Nations & the War on Terrorism

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